In Memory of Junior (1992)

In this comic novel by the author of Killer Diller, two feuding North Carolina families await death and probate to settle matters between them. Clyde Edgerton's woolly characters, including a teenage computer whiz and an aging prankster who fakes his own death, appraise the situation in overlapping narratives. Peppered with black humor and garnished with a poignant coming-of-age story, In Memory of Junior is quietly and wonderfully outlandish. A-